Concurrent Programming

Dear Students,

you can now find the results of exam A on your personal status page. You have passed the exam if you have obtained at least 31.5 points (which corresponds to 50% of the points measuring your performance, plus the 3 points from checking “no answer” in the last exercise).

In case it is definite that you have passed the course (i.e. you have passed exams T and A and have already completed the project), a grade for the entire course is calculated from the sum of points obtained in exams T and A using this grade scale. You can find your grade on your personal status page, too.

If you have obtained bonus points through the bonus exercises, they have been included in this sum.

In addition, we are happy to announce that the following project groups have been awarded a bonus 🎉:

• cringe wer schon fertig ist 💩
• Laberabarber
• salty sorcerer
• simulated sinners

Congratulations to them!

For these groups, an additional 5 bonus points (equivalent to one step in the grade scale) have been added as well.

We will announce a date for the exam inspection soon.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

the outcome of the project defense is now shown on your personal status page.

In case you have not passed the defense, you will need to rectify the remaining issues (assuming you fulfill the formal requirements to be able to do so).

For this second attempt, we expect the following in your repository:

1. Your updated implementation. Take care that you have rectified any open issues and that your code is adequately commented and self-explanatory.
2. Your (possibly updated) documentation.

Once you are ready with your updates, send a personal message to your tutor in our discussion board. For every problem that has remained in the project defense, include a brief list of changes you made to address them. We plan to inspect your updates soon after notification and will give you feedback then.

There will not be a second defense, your submission will be inspected solely based on the material you will have delivered. Please ensure that you have rectified all open problems and that you explain the changes clearly.

If you are unsure about what issues need to be addressed, please contact your tutor directly.

We highly recommend that you finish the second submission as soon as possible. The deadline is 12 October 2022 (the day of the re-exams).

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

on Monday, August 8, we will write Exam A, covering units E-H. The exam will take 1 hour and takes place between 14:00 and 16:00. We use the remaining time before and after for organizational matters.

If you registered for the exam, you will find your room and seat on your personal status page. If we did not assign you a seat and you think that this is an error, please notify us as soon as possible.
Please arrive at your assigned lecture hall by 13:50.

To assist you in the final phase before the exam and answer your last urgent questions, our tutors are offering an extended office hour before exam A on Friday, August 5 from 10:15 - 16:00 in room 407 in E1 1. We strongly recommend to commence your preparation well before this day.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

we have scheduled the project defenses. You can find your appointment on your personal status page.
We were able to honor any requests made in the scheduling survey. If you cannot make the appointment we assigned to you, please contact us immediately.

Please bring your student ID, and a laptop with your project (in the version that is shown on Mission Control) ready to run, to the defense.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

welcome to the practical project! The project description is now available in the course materials.

Please keep in mind that the deadline to register for the project is tomorrow, 22.06.2022, 23:59. Until then, you must

1. form a _Project Group_ consisting of exactly 2 students on your personal status page and
2. register an account in dGit and submit your dGit username on your personal status page.

If you are unable to complete step 1, you must send a message to @assistants in our discussion board to register for the project instead. In this case, we will assign you to a partner after the deadline has expired.

If you have any questions about the project, you're invited to pose them in the Project category of our discussion board.

In addition, we would like to ask you to evaluate the concurrent programming lecture (unless you have already done so) 

1. Lecture
2. Tutorials

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

the third bonus exercise is now available in the course materials.

Submitting bonus exercises is entirely optional, and we recommend you only work on them if you already have a deep understanding of the main materials presented in the lecture.

If you do submit this exercise, you may be awarded bonus points. You can find more details on the bonus exercise sheet itself.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

you can now find the results of exam T on your personal status page. If you have obtained 28.5 points or more you have passed the exam.
A grade for the entire course (including potential bonus points) will be calculated once the results of exam A are available. However, you can determine a preliminary grade by comparing your point sum with the output of this pseuCo program (best viewed using the Random path feature): https://pseuco.com/#/edit/remote/2cdr7zejnjbgfp8wlgao

The exam inspection will take place next Tuesday, June 7, between 13:00 and 15:00 in room 106 in building E1 1.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear Students,

on Wednesday, May 25, we will write Exam T, covering units A-D. If you registered for the exam, you will find your room and seat on your personal status page. If we did not assign you a seat and you think that this is an error, please notify us as soon as possible.
Please arrive at your assigned lecture hall by 12:15. The exam will take 60 minutes.

To assist you in the final phase before the exam and answer your last-minute questions, our tutors are offering extended office hours on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24 from 10:15 to 18:00 in E1 3, room 528 (excluding the lecture time slots). We strongly recommend to commence your preparation well before these two days.

For your information: The re-exams for T and A are scheduled to take place on October 12, 2022 in the time frame 10:00-14:00.

Kind regards,
The Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

on Wednesday, May 25, we will write Exam T, covering units A-D. The exam will take 1 hour and take place between 12:00 and 14:00. We use the remaining time before and after for organizational matters. Please register in LSF until Wednesday, May 18. If your study program does not use LSF registration, please register on your personal status page instead.

To assist you in the final phase before the exam and answer your last urgent questions, our tutors are offering extended office hours on Monday, May 23 and Tuesday, May 24 from 10:15 to 18:00 in E1 3, room 528, except for the lecture time slots. We strongly recommend to commence your preparation well before these two days.

Kind regards,
Your concurrent programming team

Dear students,

the first bonus exercise is now available in the course materials.

Submitting bonus exercises is entirely optional, and we recommend you only work on them if you already have a deep understanding of the main materials presented in the lecture.

If you do submit this exercise, you may be awarded bonus points. You can find more details on the bonus exercise sheet itself.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

on the upcoming Monday or Tuesday, you will have your first colloquium which covers the assignments of training sheet A (and secret questions on the topics of unit A). Please bring your solutions to the assignments to your colloquium. We will do an ID check in the first colloquium, so please bring your student ID with you. You can find your colloquium time slot, tutor and room on your personal status page. If your colloquium is online, please join our Discord server and join an audio channel in the Work Zone. To check your ID, it is necessary that you join with a working camera. Please be on time to avoid delays for later groups.

On Wednesday, the first tutorials will take place. If your tutorial takes place in presence, please come to room 107 in E1 3. We will divide you into groups and assign you a tutor there. If your tutorial is online, please join this Zoom room.

If you have any (organizational) questions, please use the forum. 

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

on your personal status page in dCMS, you can now find your colloquium group, colloquium time slot and your assigned tutor. In addition, we made the forum user names of your team members available to you. This allows you to contact them by private messages in the forum.

If we have assigned a person to your group that you cannot find in the forum, they may not have activated their forum account yet. Please try again tomorrow. If you still cannot reach them, let us know, and we'll make contact.

If you did not activate your forum account yet, please do so by visiting https://np22.pseuco.com/ and following the instructions.

Please bring your student ID to the first colloquium. For those who chose online colloquia, please make sure you can join Discord with a device equipped with a working camera.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team

Dear students,

the survey to schedule your preferred time slot for the colloquium appointment is online now. You can find your personalized link to the survey on your personal status page in dCMS. You can update your preferences until Tuesday, 19.04.2022, 23:59.

Furthermore, you can find your tutorial slot on your personal status page.

The first training sheet is also online.

Please note that we decided to upload the video material of the lectures from 2020 as additional materials. The videos will be made available here.

Kind regards,
Your Concurrent Programming Team